Real photos from my classroom. I changed the children’s faces because… I’d rather not get sued. I have worked in a mixed-age classroom with 24 children and one assistant guide. Two adults. Twenty-four preschool-aged children. Someone pees themselves. One of us has to attend right away before they slip on their own pee, before someone else steps in it, and because, well… you have a little human who needs help getting cleaned up. So now one adult is in the bathroom. And one adu

Halloween with the littles 2023 I started teaching when I was 21 years old, in a very poor neighborhood in Lebanon. At the time, I actually had another option: I could work in a translation office. Languages were something I was good at. I spoke them, I loved them. But when I imagined myself spending my days behind a desk, translating documents and barely moving, something in me resisted. It wasn't really about the desk. Teaching felt different. When I was with children, I f

glass breaks: this is information Real tools. Real utensils. Real plates. Real glasses. Real vases. Not plastic versions of life. Because a child doesn’t need a toy hammer to learn how a hammer works. They need the real one: appropriately sized, carefully introduced, and used with purpose. This is not about being reckless. It’s about trust. You are saying: I believe you can learn to handle this. And then comes the magic: the child learns how to carry, pour, cut, place, clean,

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